Letter: Tour guides ignore Woolworth sit-ins

Tuesday

Feb 19, 2013 at 11:16 PM

Kate C. Cash

Editor: I have never written a "Letter to the Editor" before but am prompted to by the article in Saturday's paper about Wells Fargo moving into The Woolworth Building. We had company last week and I took my friend on The Red Train tour two days in a row. Every time we rode by The Woolworth Building I expected to hear the story of the sit-in at the counter in 1960. Nothing - even though we rode with multiple drivers. I remember being told the story a few years ago when we took the tour. Now, even though this is Black History Month, the sit in story is forgotten or at least put into storage, along with the counter that is a piece of history. Shame on somebody!

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